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On the morning of Saturday, December 2, Rivera and a relative, who knew even less about DC-7s than he did, took the plane out for what was called a runup, meaning they would taxi around the airstrip, warming up the engines, but not try to fly it.

The suspense was intense in the runup to the release of nearly 24,000 pages of emails from the first two years of her term as governor, the result of Freedom of Information Act lawsuits by media companies.